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<h1 class="topictitle1">Performing Periodic Backup</h1>
<div><p>After the VMs to be protected are associated with a specified SLA, the system periodically backs up the VMs based on the SLA.</p>
<div class="section" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792547708__section579770175718"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Prerequisites</h4><p id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792547708__p13641388441">If the ESXi host uses a domain name for registration, ensure that the mapping between the IP address and name of the target host has been added. For details, see <a href="en-us_topic_0000001792387948.html">Backup or Restoration Fails Because the Domain Name of the ESXi Host Cannot Be Identified by the Backup Agent Host</a>.</p>
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<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Procedure</h4><ol><li><span>Choose <span class="uicontrol" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792547708__en-us_topic_0000001839142377_uicontrol1738217261378"><b><span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792547708__en-us_topic_0000001839142377_text738292620372"><strong>Protection</strong></span> &gt; Virtualization &gt; VMware</b></span>.</span></li><li><span>Select VMs to be protected.</span><p><ol type="a"><li>Select a vCenter Server or ESXi host on the left of the page.</li><li>On the right of the page, select VMs that you want to protect on the vCenter Server or ESXi host.<ul><li>When you select a cluster on the <span><strong>Cluster</strong></span> tab page, the system protects all VMs in the cluster.</li><li>When you select a host on the <span><strong>Hosts</strong></span> tab page, the system protects all VMs on the host.</li><li>When you select a VM on the <span><strong>VMs</strong></span> tab page, the system protects the VM.</li><li>When you select a VM group on the <strong>VM Groups</strong> tab page, the system protects all VMs in the VM group.</li></ul>
<div class="note"><img src="public_sys-resources/note_3.0-en-us.png"><span class="notetitle"> </span><div class="notebody"><ul><li id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792547708__li134729581904"><strong id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792547708__b457194514216">VM Groups</strong> is available only in 1.6.0 and later versions.</li><li>A maximum of 1000 VMware VMs can be protected in a batch.</li></ul>
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</p></li><li><span>Click <span class="uicontrol"><b><span><strong>Protect</strong></span></b></span>.</span></li><li><span>In the <span><strong>Selected</strong></span> area, click the number of selected disks. On the displayed <strong>Selected Disks</strong> page, deselect the disks that do not need to be backed up. Skip this step if you select <strong>VM Groups</strong>.</span><p><p>The <strong>Selected Disks</strong> page displays all disks to be protected. You can deselect the disks that do not need to be protected.</p>
<div class="note"><img src="public_sys-resources/note_3.0-en-us.png"><span class="notetitle"> </span><div class="notebody"><ul><li>After you select some disks for backup, the generated copies do not support live mount or instant recovery.</li><li>If the system disk is deselected, the generated copy can only be used for disk restoration.</li></ul>
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</p></li><li><span>Choose a preset or user-defined SLA.</span><p><p>You can also click <span class="uicontrol"><b><span><strong>Create</strong></span></b></span> to create an SLA.</p>
</p></li><li><span>Set advanced parameters by referring to <a href="#EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792547708__table5881822353">Table 1</a>.</span><p>
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<tbody><tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="29.349999999999998%" headers="mcps1.3.3.2.6.2.1.2.3.1.1 "><p><span><strong>Agent Host</strong></span></p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="70.65%" headers="mcps1.3.3.2.6.2.1.2.3.1.2 "><p>When you select a VM or VM group for protection, you can select an agent host for executing jobs.</p>
<p>If you leave this parameter unspecified, the system randomly selects an agent host during job execution.</p>
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<tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="29.349999999999998%" headers="mcps1.3.3.2.6.2.1.2.3.1.1 "><p><span><strong>Concurrent Jobs</strong></span></p>
<div class="note"><span class="notetitle"> NOTE: </span><div class="notebody"><p>Only 1.6.0 and later versions support this parameter.</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="70.65%" headers="mcps1.3.3.2.6.2.1.2.3.1.2 "><p>When you select a host, cluster, or VM group for protection, you can set the number of backup jobs that can be concurrently executed.</p>
<p>The value ranges from <strong>1</strong> to <strong>10</strong>.</p>
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<tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="29.349999999999998%" headers="mcps1.3.3.2.6.2.1.2.3.1.1 "><p><span><strong>SLA Overwrite Policy</strong></span></p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="70.65%" headers="mcps1.3.3.2.6.2.1.2.3.1.2 "><div class="p" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792547708__p198913233514">When you select a cluster or host for protection, you can choose whether to overwrite the existing VM SLAs.<div class="note" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792547708__note1032172155715"><span class="notetitle"> NOTE: </span><div class="notebody"><p id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792547708__p332227572">If you select <span class="uicontrol" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792547708__uicontrol011093871013"><b><span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792547708__text11103387103"><strong>Do not overwrite existing VM SLAs</strong></span></b></span> when modifying the SLA associated with the cluster or host, the VM SLAs are still overwritten when they are the same as the SLA of the cluster or host before the modification.</p>
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<tr><td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="29.349999999999998%" headers="mcps1.3.3.2.6.2.1.2.3.1.1 "><p><span><strong>SLA Application Policy</strong></span></p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="70.65%" headers="mcps1.3.3.2.6.2.1.2.3.1.2 "><div class="p" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792547708__p15717541108">When you select a cluster or host for protection, you can choose the application scope of the SLA policy as follows:<ul id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792547708__ul192722515111"><li id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792547708__li1592717251115">Applying the cluster or host SLA policy to all VMs that are not associated with any SLA</li><li id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792547708__li10927625419">Applying the cluster or host SLA policy to newly created VMs<p id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792547708__p39279251213"><a name="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792547708__li10927625419"></a><a name="li10927625419"></a>After the virtualization environment is scanned, the newly discovered VMs are associated with the same SLA as the cluster or host.</p>
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<td class="cellrowborder" valign="top" width="70.65%" headers="mcps1.3.3.2.6.2.1.2.3.1.2 "><div class="p" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792547708__p163682020325">If you want to specify the VMs to be excluded or included in the protection plan when selecting a cluster or host for protection, enable this function and perform the following operations:<ol type="a" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792547708__ol92741652870"><li id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792547708__li2066616282811">Select a filtering mode.</li><li id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792547708__li42741252878">Enter a VM name or keyword in the text box to filter VMs based on the selected filtering mode.<ul id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792547708__ul12669913111111"><li id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792547708__li180521811113">Use commas (,) to separate multiple names or keywords.</li><li id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792547708__li10669613121112">Exact match and fuzzy match of VM names are supported. Fuzzy match rules include prefix match (for example, abc*), suffix match (for example, *abc), and middle match (for example, *abc*).</li></ul>
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</p></li><li><span>Click <span class="uicontrol" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792547708__en-us_topic_0000001792503842_uicontrol196538515235"><b>OK</b></span>. </span><p><p id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000001792547708__en-us_topic_0000001792503842_p25041111535">If the current system time is later than the first backup start time of the SLA, you can select to perform backup immediately after the backup SLA is associated or wait for the next scheduling based on the backup policy set in the SLA.</p>
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